Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond the simple wickedness of war between the sexes, Miss Worth offers the far more terrifying predicament of a woman at war with herself. Her Hedda has replaced duty to others with the new, disguised puritanism of self-fulfillment: duty to oneself. She wants to do her own thing, if only she knew what it was. Push her bumbling academic husband into politics? Take on a new lover? Or pull back onto her puppet strings the old lover she never quite had the courage to claim? It is a compassionately balanced mood-portrait of modern woman: boredom at the level...
...through the articulation of art made in scorn of the emotionalism which is the inspiration of lesser artists, in scorn of everything except a sense of truth willed to later men in perfect works. His music is written in humble recompense to God. To create music is to recreate oneself and perhaps, to bring some beauty of order into the world. The harmony of the individual sou? will be the harmony of the earth, and art is the only way. "Myself I must remake, says Yeats's poem, and so must...
...trip of insights. In Yoko's book, these insights are called pieces; they are grouped into sections ; and, small wonder, the sections together are termed Grapefruit . Moreover, each piece is of the type so common to stone sessions: the instruction . The instruction is the message one pens to oneself when stoned. It is invariably a great, creative, insighful idea which requires execution. (For sample: "Go from one room to another / opening and closing each door. / Do not make any sounds. / Go from the top of the building / to the bottom.") While stoned, one lacks the energy needed...
...leaden downs. Pluche is a talented, unfashionable, moderately successful painter who is down-or, in Jean Dutourd's words, "chained down in hell amid the circle of the frivolous damned, where everything is mere diversion, where one only hears rank stupidities, where one only says stupidities oneself, where one is bored to death without ever dying...
...Professor Links who identify with and justify the Woodrow Wilsons of this world. I am leaving because I deny the elitism which Harvard represents and, even worse, in which people at Harvard believe. I am leaving because Professor May says that studying history means that one must constantly discipline oneself to do what one does not want to do. Spare us all from the discipline of Dean May's world...